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The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of companies committed to building an open applications platform which was announced during this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain has been officially formed as a corporate entity. Moreover, it [WAC] has joined forces with the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to “accelerate the commercial launch of WAC-enabled application stores.”
The transaction is expected to be completed in September 2010, and the WAC Specification and SDK are set to be released in November. The mentioned specification will be based on W3C standards and “create a strong platform for developing rich mobile web applications.” WAC will also provide backwards compatibility for devices based upon the current JIL and BONDI specifications. All the details regarding the developer roadmap will be available in September.
Peters Suh, which used to be the the CEO of the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL), has been named the WAC CEO. Prior to JIL, Peters held a number of executive positions at Vodafone, Fremont Communications and AirTouch.
In addition to Peters, Michel Combes (Vodafone Chief Executive Europe) and Jean-Philippe Vanot (Deputy CEO, France Telecom) have been elected as Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Wholesale Applications Community…
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
